Red Riding Hood’s revenge? “Don’t ever take candy from a stranger or get into his car” this line has been drilled into our young little brains from teachers to parents. We have grown up being told never to trust a stranger because “stranger danger” one of my favorite lines as a child. Not only was this directed to us with our parents and teachers, but the classic folktale, “Little Red Riding Hood” has been taught to young children for many years. The stories moral is not to trust strangers and do not associate with them for any reason. While reading Perrault’s version of the classic folk tale, his moral is that children, especially young girl’s, can be eaten by wolves by just talking and trusting a stranger. He points out that women are more …show more content…
One thing I noticed about this movie in comparison to Perrault 's story is how the women differ. In the story Little Red is portrayed as a girl who doesn’t think for herself and just gives out any information. In this quote from Little Red Riding Hood the narrator says, “The poor child, who did not know that it was dangerous to stop and listen to wolves, said…”(Pg. 12) Here we see how Little Red doesn’t think for herself and just gives out information. However, in the movie Haley tricks Jeff by giving him wrong information, “You know, actually, it 's kinda funny. Because every time I would mention some obscure singer or band, you knew so much about them. But not right away, it was like a few minutes later. Maybe enough time to look them up on the web?” In this quote, we see Haley as an intelligent women and unlike Fairy Tales where we always have women portrayed as ditzy or unaware. I thought it worked well because this shows that women are smart and capable unlike the Fairy Tales. Throughout the whole story, Haley plays many games with Jeff and always seems to be one step ahead. For a fourteen year old, Haley’s performance was wonderful. Her character was brave, bright, and very sharp. Although, in the beginning her character did appear like Little Red in the novel, but she amazes the audience towards the rising action. This movie shows how women should not be considered weak and can fight for
The movie is, most likely, done well enough to intrigue its intended audience. It captured the theme and story line of the book. It falls short, though, when compared to the beautiful, sensitive and contemplative prose of Natalie Babbitt. One could only hope that a viewing of the film will lead the watcher to try the book and be delighted all the more.
Today, adults reading Charles Perrault’s Cinderella realize similarities and differences between Cinderella and a modern western woman. Adults recognize that Cinderella in Perrault’s fairy tale has undesirable qualities for a modern western woman, today. Cinderella is affectionate, goodwill, forgiving, and loyal. On the other hand, Cinderella is not independent, outspoken, confident, and strong. Cinderella has low self esteem and is incapable of solving problems. Inferiority, dependence and passiveness are characteristics that represent Cinderella do not characterize a modern western woman.
According to the Internet Movie Database's exhaustive records, Louisa May Alcott's novel "Little Women" has seen itself recreated in four TV series, four made for TV movies and five feature length movies since 1918. The most recent version appeared in 1994 and features Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, Kirsten Dunst, Samantha Mathis, Eric Stoltz, Susan Sarandon, and Gabriel Byrne. As a long time fan of the novel, who has happily carted her large leather bound gold-gilded unabridged edition whenever she has moved, I find that I was disappointed in this newest movie version. As a movie lover, however, I found the movie to be an enjoyable experience.
The book and the movie were both very good. The book took time to explain things like setting, people’s emotions, people’s traits, and important background information. There was no time for these explanations the movie. The book, however, had parts in the beginning where some readers could become flustered.
“I've told her and I've told her: daughter, you have to teach that child the facts of life before it's too late” (Hopkinson 1). These are the first three lines of Nalo Hopkinson's short story “Riding the Red”, a modern adaptation of Charles Perrault's “Little Red Riding Hood”. In his fairy tale Perrault prevents girls from men's nature. In Hopkinson's adaptation, the goal remains the same: through the grandmother biographic narration, the author elaborates a slightly revisited plot without altering the moral: young girls should beware of men; especially when they seem innocent.
“I've told her and I've told her: daughter, you have to teach that child the facts of life before it's too late” (Hopkinson 1). These are the first three lines of Nalo Hopkinson's fairy tale “Riding the Red”, a modern adaptation of Charles Perrault's “Little Red Riding Hood”. Perrault provided a moral to his fairy tales, the one from this one is to prevent girls from men's nature. In Hopkinson's adaptation, the goal remains the same: through the grandmother biographic narration, the author advances a revisited but still effective moral: beware of wolfs even though they seem innocent.
My overall critical assessment of this movie is that it is a little over the top to get the point across. I did enjoy the movie it wasn?t a hard movie to watch and in the initial viewing it didn?t take a lot of analyzing to see the gender stereotypes or gender roles because they were practically spelled out and stamped on everyone?s foreheads. From Elle the typical blonde bombshell to Warner the tall, handsome, rich male, to Callahan the professional lawyer at the top with no female lawyers in his firm, who also uses his power to try to get in bed with Elle, there was Emmett who wasn?t self centered and didn?t try to make unwanted passes at Elle but at the same time he wasn?t ugly. So this movie Satirically pointed out many stereotypes that are very real in our society today.
"Hamlet" is a revenge tragedy written by William Shakespeare. The setting of the story is in the middle ages around the 14th or 15th century. The play is mainly set in the royal palace in Elsinore, a city in Denmark. The story features plenty of deaths and a grueling revenge plot set by our main protagonist, Hamlet. What made "Hamlet" famous was not only it 's classic murderous story line, but also the way that Shakespeare puts together complex scenes. Act III, scene ii was a particular scene in "Hamlet" that captured Shakespeare 's literary genius because he used this scene to advance the play even further. What made this scene stand out are a couple of reasons. First, in this scene, hamlet appears to be more in control of his behavior than other scenes which proves that his sanity is still intact and showing that his insanity is just a decoy for his true plans. Second, this is the scene where Shakespeare revealed to the audience that the ghost
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People that grow up watching the classic Disney Princess movies, which give us false hope that every simple quiet girl will end up marrying a prince. The Beauty and the Beast being one of those movies, teaching us that if you fall in love with a hairy like creature he will turn into Mr. McDreamy. The bubbly Disney version of the Beauty and the Beast usually does not allow scholars to find a deeper meaning. Believe it or not, Disney did not create this classic tale. In fact, Charles Perrault wrote a darker version of it almost three centuries before. Perrault’s twisted feminist version has hidden messages and meanings still puzzling scholars today. Some say that at the end of every fairy tale he would put a rhyme that would be a hidden message to little girls. The messages presented caution about not trusting strangers or to stay true to who you are. Unlike Disney’s anti- feminist version, often characterizing girls as the damsel’s in distress, Perrault’s gives girls the look of independence. He shows young girls that they do not always need a prince charming by giving Beauty the decision that could change her life.
Once Upon A Time started in 2011 and it is just ending their fifth season today. It stars Emilie de Ravin (Belle French), Ginnifer Goodwin (Mary Margret Blanchard), Jennifer Morrison (Emma Swan), Lana Parrilla (Regina Mills), Josh Dallas (David Nolan), Jared Gilmore (Henry Mills), Robert Carlyle (Mr. Gold), and Colin O' Donoghue (Captain Hook). Many young girls enjoy watching it because they use fairy tales. However, it is based for young adults because of the language content and maturity level. Females enjoy it because of the fairy tales, and males like it because it has a lot of action and adventure. However, The Musketeers started in 2014 and is in the middle of their third season. It stars Tom Burke (Athos), Luke Pasqualino (D' Artagnan),
...amily she finds the true meaning of being brave and saves her family (“Brave”). I like this kind of movie instead of a man being the brave and independent one now the woman is. These are the kind of fairy tales that need to be told so that women do not feel the need to be weak and dependent on other people. If fairy tales slowly become more realistic then I think they are a good thing but teaching women to not be strong or if their not a size 0 and gorgeous, well that in my eyes is not okay.
The two stories of course are similar and of course not the same. In the Grim tale, The story centers around Little Red Cap. In Roald Dahl’s version, the story is centered around the wolf. Both stories have the wolf eat the grandma, but Grimm had the wolf ask Little Red Cap where her grandma lived whereas in Roald Dahl’s version, it is implied that he already knew where she lived and knew that Little Red Riding Hood would come for a visit. Both stories had the wolf dressed as grandma to deceive Little Red Riding Hood(Cap) but Roald Dahl goes more in depth in describing what the wolf does to pull it off right. When Little Red Riding Hood(Cap) goes in to grandma’s house, they both have that whole dialogue:
When authors or writers rewrite classic texts, they are able to reveal important lessons to readers or make the underlying message from an original text more obvious to readers. Rewriting classic texts can also allow the writer make an original text more moderate, by doing so it makes the text more relatable to the readers and help them understand the story more clearly. This is exactly what Angela Carter did in her text, “The Company of Wolves,” Carter creates and reveals to readers a feminist point in her rewrite. Carter is criticizing the original text of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s story, “Little Red Cap.” Carter develops a female protagonist who is independent and also explores her sexuality, unlike the Grimm Brothers who creates a poorly developed damsel in distress. Carter, also does not include a typical fairytale story ending, unlike the Grimm brothers and most fairy tales which end on a happy note. By creating these kind of character developments and disregarding a typical “happily ever after” ending, Carter expresses feminist ideals and rids the stereotypical attributes a female character is usually given in fairytales. Carter is trying to show readers the importance of developing the female characters, unlike the Grimm Brothers who have much more developed male characters than female characters.
The stories ?Little Red Riding Hood,? by Charles Perrault, and ?Little Red Cap,? by the Brothers Grimm, are similar and different. Moreover, both stories differ from the American version. The stories have a similar moral at the end, each with a slight twist. This story, in each of its translations, is representative of a girl?s loss of innocence, her move from childhood or adolescence into adulthood. The way women are treated within each story is different. Little Red in the French version was eaten; whereas in the German version, she is rescued by the woodsman, and this further emphasizes the cultural differences.